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In Feminist Praxis Revisited, Women's and Gender Studies (WGS)
practitioners reflect on how the field has sought to integrate its
commitment to activism and social change with community-based
learning in post-secondary institutions.Teaching about and for
social change has been a core value of the field since its
inception, and co-op, practica, and internships have long been part
of the curriculum in the professional schools. However, liberal
arts faculties are increasingly under pressure to integrate
community engagement practices and respond to labour market demands
for greater student ""employability."" That demand creates
challenges and possibilities as WGS programs and instructors adapt
to changing post-secondary agendas. This book examines how WGS
programs can continue to prioritize the foundational critiques of
inequality, power, privilege, and identity in the face of a
post-secondary push toward praxis as resume building, skills
acquisition, and the bridging of town-and-gown differences. It
pushes students to reflect critically on their own experiences with
feminist praxis through critical reflections offered by the
contributors along with examples of practical approaches to
community-based/experiential learning.
Between the late 1970s and the early 2000s, at least sixty-five
women, many of them members of Indigenous communities, were found
murdered or reported missing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. In
a work driven by the urgency of this ongoing crisis, which extends
across the country, Amber Dean offers a timely, critical analysis
of the public representations, memorials, and activist strategies
that brought the story of Vancouver's disappeared women to the
attention of a wider public. Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared
Women traces "what lives on" from the violent loss of so many women
from the same neighbourhood. Dean interrogates representations that
aim to humanize the murdered or missing women, asking how these
might inadvertently feed into the presumed dehumanization of sex
work, Indigeneity, and living in the Downtown Eastside of
Vancouver. Taking inspiration from Indigenous women's research,
activism, and art, she challenges readers to reckon with our
collective implication in the ongoing violence of settler
colonialism and to accept responsibility for addressing its
countless injustices.
On June 23, 1985, the bombing of Air India Flight 182 killed 329
people, most of them Canadians. Today this pivotal event in
Canada's history is hazily remembered, yet certain interests have
shaped how the tragedy is woven into public memory, and even
exploited to advance a pernicious national narrative. Remembering
Air India insists that we "remember Air India otherwise." This
collection investigates the Air India bombing and its implications
for current debates about racism, terrorism, and citizenship.
Drawing together academic analysis, testimony, visual arts, and
creative writing, this innovative volume tenders a new public
record of the bombing, one that shows how important creative
responses are for deepening our understanding of the event and its
aftermath. Contributions by: Cassel Busse, Chandrima Chakraborty,
Amber Dean, Rita Kaur Dhamoon, Angela Failler, Teresa Hubel, Suvir
Kaul, Elan Marchinko, Eisha Marjara, Bharati Mukherjee, Lata Pada,
Uma Parameswaran, Sherene H. Razack, Renee Sarojini Saklikar, Maya
Seshia, Karen Sharma, Deon Venter, Padma Viswanathan
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